stützen — meaning in English

English meaning

• abet verb To help or encourage someone to do something wrong, especially a crime.
• buttress noun A support made of brick, concrete or stone, set against a structure to hold it up.
• corroborate verb To support or confirm a claim with additional evidence.
• crop noun A plant grown and harvested for food, feed, or other economic use.
• curtail verb To cut something short or reduce it, especially something that would otherwise have continued at its full extent.
• nipple noun The small raised point on a breast through which a mother's milk can flow.
• pare verb To cut away the outer skin or covering of something, usually with a knife.
• prop noun An object used to support something, or to keep it in place.
• prune noun A dried plum.
• stub noun A short remaining piece of something after the main part has been used, cut, or removed.
• support noun Help, encouragement or resources given to someone or something.
• sustain verb To keep something going or in existence over time.
• trim verb To cut away excess from something to neaten it.
• underpin verb To hold something up from underneath with supports or brickwork.

Senses

stützen is used for these senses in English:

• abet (transitive) To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action). [late 16th c.]
• buttress To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
• buttress (figurative, by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence.
• corroborate (transitive) To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.
• crop (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
• curtail (transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of; to bring an end to; to truncate.
• nipple (plumbing, chiefly, US) A short tube threaded at both ends, used as a connector. [from 19th c.]
• pare (transitive, often, with down or back) To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off.

abet — full definition

1. verb To help or encourage someone to do something wrong, especially a crime.
2. verb To support or back up a good cause, opinion or action.
3. verb To push someone toward doing something worthwhile.
4. verb (dated) To back a prediction by putting money on it.

buttress — full definition

1. noun A support made of brick, concrete or stone, set against a structure to hold it up.
2. noun Something that gives support or strength to another thing.
3. noun In botany, a wide, flat root that spreads out from the base of a tree trunk to help hold it up.
4. noun A part of a mountain or rock face that sticks out sharply.

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